To save Canada’s marijuana laws from becoming null and void, U.S. state medical marijuana programs will be cited as working examples of what other countries have created. Canada’s federal legal medical marijuana program is similar to what U.S. states have, a Canadian prosecutor will argue in May before the country’s second highest court.
It’s one of many arguments designed to overturn a landmark court ruling (R v. Mernagh) that eliminated Canada’s weed laws, decimated their federal government-run medical marijuana program, and allows me to legally grow and possess my own without a government license of any kind.
The feds really need to win their appeal if marijuana is to remain a prohibited substance, so naturally they’ve thrown plenty of arguments on why the ruling must be overturned by two of three justices on the Ontario Court of Appeal.
One of the prosecutor’s suggestions is, medical marijuana programs in the U.S.A. require a physician declaration just like Canada’s.
The comparison between Canada’s flawed federal program and a hodgepodge of U.S. state programs is bizarre — like suggesting there is no such thing as sativa and indica marijuana plants. Wait, Canada’s federal government did that, too.
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